Figurative Language simile assonance personification metaphor
Alliteration onomatopoeia Figurative Language The opposite of literal language is figurative language. Figurative language is language that means more than what it says on the surface. It usually gives us a feeling about its subject. A writers tool It helps the reader to visualize (see) what the writer is thinking It puts a picture in the readers mind What is figurative language?
Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else,you are using figurative language. Types of Figurative Language
1. Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Personification 4. Alliteration/Assonance/Consonance 5. Onomatopoeia 6. Hyperbole 7. Allusion 8. Idioms Simile a direct comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as I am hungry as a horse. You run like a rabbit. She is happy as a clam.
She is happy as a clam. He is sneaky as a snake. Metaphor: A way of comparing Two unlike things Does not use like or as Ex. am is, are, was The road was a ribbon wrapped through the desert.
The clown was a feather floating away. to give human characteristics to something that is not human
Personification to give human characteristics to something that is not human (i.e., animals, objects, or ideas) The flowers danced in the wind.
The friendly gates welcomed us. The hurricanes winds are yelling while blowing outside my window. Alliteration: repetition of the first consonant sound at the beginning of words Alliteration (continued)
Alliteration: when the first sounds in words repeat. Example Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper. We lurk late.We shoot straight. Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.
Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmys on Tuesday. Click here to read more alliterations. vowel sounds. Doesn't have to rhyme!!
Assonance: The repetition of internal vowel sounds.Doesn't have to rhyme!! SOUND DEVICE: CONSONANCE
- repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of poetry. Examples of Consonance Repeating the sh sound in the words: shush, wish, sharp, cushion and quash Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tipperss lips
Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tipperss lips The pain may drain Drake, but maybe the weight is fake. Onomatopoeia: Words that are sounds Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia: When a words pronunciation imitates its sound. Examples BuzzFizzWoof HissClinkBoom BeepVroomZip The firecracker made a loud ka-boom!
The ball went swish as it hit the net. I knew the car was going to break down because it went chug chug chug Hyperbole An exaggerated statement . It is not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point. Example: Shes said so on several million occasions. Idioms An idiomof words or expression different from the ordinary meaning of the words. The context can help you understand what an idiom means. Example: "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word. Idioms (continued) An expression that carries a different meaning because of the context in which it is used slang terms Examples Up the creek without a paddle On top of the world Fingers crossed Shake a leg or Break a leg Put a lid on it Its raining cats and dogs Allusion A reference to a person, event, or place in history or in another well-known work of literature The writer assumes will recognize the reference Example Someone being as reliable as George Washington or as reliable as Benedict Arnold Washington was reliable, Arnold was not To communicate the idea of self-sacrifice by referring to Jesus Jesus' story portrays him dying on the cross in order to save mankind (Matthew 27:45-56) Irony When a speaker intends something entirely different than what is said Say it one way, but secretly mean it the opposite way Example Someone accomplishes something hard or is very successful and you say, Youve certainly made a mess of things. It smells really good in here! when referring to something that smells terrible. Rhythm When words are arranged in such a way that they make a pattern or beat. Example There once was a man from Peru, Who dreamed of eating his shoe, He awoke with a fright, In the middle of the night, And found that his dream had come true! Hint: hum the words instead of saying them. Rhyme When words have the same end sound.
Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines. Examples Where Fair Air Bear Glare Smart by Shel Silverstein
My dad gave me a one dollar bill 'Cause I'm his smartest son, And I swapped it for two shiny quarters 'Cause two is more than one! And then I took the quarters And traded them to Lou For three dimes -- I guess he don't know That three is more than two! Just then, along came old blind Bates And just 'cause he can't see He gave me four nickels for my three dimes, And four is more than three! And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs Down at the seed-feed store, And the fool gave me five pennies for them, And five is more than four! And then I went and showed my dad, And he got red in the cheeks And closed his eyes and shook his head Too proud of me to speak! Pets Absolutely not! My mother said to me, When I asked her for a dog that was big as tree, He'll gobble all the food that we have in the house, Why don't you get a smaller pet like a hamster or a mouse. But a mouse ain't quite large enough to get the job done right, He's got to be there by my side when my brother wants to fight! The Couple Lola took the bus one day To see the sun go down At the sea she saw it's face In the water drown Felt so bad for Mr. Sun She thought she'd save his life Took a boat out the next day And then became his wife But too bad for Mr. Sun And his Missus too For both of them I'm afraid to say Drowned in the deep sea blue But they'll arise tomorrow when You'll see them at high noon Runnin' 'cross the sky together The bright sun and the moon. Practice Quiz Ill put some lines of poetry on the board.
Write down which techniques are used: Alliteration, consonance, rhythm, rhyme, and onomatopoeia. Some poems use more than one technique. 1 The cuckoo in our cuckoo clock was wedded to an octopus.
She laid a single wooden egg and hatched a cuckoocloctopus. 2 They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here
with the shades down listening to the sounds, the hammers pounding in nails, thack thack thack thack, and then I hear birds, and thack thack thack, 3 very little love is not so bad or very little life what counts
is waiting on walls I was born for this I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead. 4 The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. 5 Homework! Oh, homework! I hate you! You stink! I wish I could wash you away in the sink. Answers 1. Repetition, rhythm, rhyme, consonance
2.Onomatopoeia, assonance, repetition Alliteration, repetition Rhythm, rhyme Repetition, rhyme, rhythm Figurative Language Resources
Eye on Idioms (Online PPT) Paint by Idioms (Game) Alliteration or Simile? (Quiz) Similes and Metaphors (PPT) The Search for Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms (PPT) Alliteration (PPT) Onomatopoeia (PPT) Personification (PPT) Hyperbole (PPT) Idioms(PPT) Simile (PPT) Teaching Similes and Metaphors
Alliteration Lesson Plan and Resources Hyperbole- Lesson Plans and Resources Idiom Lesson Plan Imagery- Lesson Plans and Resources Lesson Plan for Puns Onomatopoeia- Lesson Plans and Resources Personification Lesson Plans and Resources Proverbs- Lesson Plans and Resources